Continuing from Monday…

Now that you have returned home, it’s important that you consider the fact that you could have brought bed bugs home with you from your trip.  Unpacking your belongings in a bathtub will help you to easily see any stray bed bugs and will contain them in an enclosed area.  You should quickly launder your clothing in hot water and dry them with hot heat as bed bugs cannot survive temperatures over 113 degrees.

All luggage pieces should be carefully inspected for any hitchhiking bed bugs as well.  Vacuum your luggage completely and pay careful attention to the seams, pockets, and zippered areas as these are good places for bed bugs to congregate.  Bed bug eggs contain a sticky substance to keep them in place when they are laid. Using a stiff brush will help dislodge any bed bug eggs that could be stuck to the interior or exterior of your luggage or other belongings that you have brought home.  Vacuum bags should be disposed of in a sealed plastic trash bag in the trash receptacle outside of your home to avoid any bed bug escapees.

Stern Environmental Group has a wide variety of bed bug products available to help you avoid a New York or New Jersey bed bug infestation.  The PackTite Portable Bed Bug Killing Heat Chamber is great for the casual or business traveler.  This incredible device will de-bug your belongings within a few hours by baking bed bugs and their eggs at temperatures up to about 130 degrees.  For this and many other useful bed bug infestation avoiding tools, stop by Stern!

If you find that you have inadvertently picked up bed bugs while you were traveling this holiday season, it’s important to call a pest control specialist as soon you discover the infestation.  Stern Environmental Group provides expert bed bug eradication services to New York City, New Jersey and New York.